Polly Horvath (born 30 January 1957) is an American-Canadian author of novels for

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and

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. She won the 2003 U.S.

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for ''

The Canning Season ''The Canning Season'' is a young adult novel by American-Canadian author Polly Horvath. It was first published in 2003 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by ...

'', published by

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. Horvath was born and raised in

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. She has been writing since the age of eight. She attended college in

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. She lived in

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and

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before settling on southern

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."About Polly Horvath"
Polly Horvath. Retrieved 2012-03-26. She was a finalist for the U.S.

in 1999 (''The Trolls'') and a runner-up for the

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in 2002 ('' Everything on a Waffle'') before winning the National Book Award. She won the

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in 2013 for ''One Year in Coal Harbor''. Horvath once declared: "I don't have that much fun writing them. I have the most fun when I'm on the last page." She is married to Arnie Keller. They have two daughters, Emily and Rebecca.

Books

*''An Occasional Cow'' (1989) *''No More Cornflakes'' (1990) *''The Happy Yellow Car'' (1994) *''When the Circus Came to Town'' (1996) *''The Trolls'' (1999) — finalist, U.S.

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;"National Book Awards – 1999"
NBF. Retrieved 2012-01-26. honor book,

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*'' Everything on a Waffle'' (2001) — Newbery Honor;"Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922–Present"

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. (ALSC).

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(ALA).

"The John Newbery Medal"
ALSC. ALA. Retrieved 2012-04-15. Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor; International White Ravens 2002; Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize ( British Columbia Book Prize for Children's Literature) *''

'' (2003) — Young Adult Canadian Book of the Year; U.S. National Book Award"National Book Awards – 2003"

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(NBF). Retrieved 2012-01-26.
(With acceptance speech by Horvath an introduction by jury chair Susan Campbell Bartoletti: this year's entries "reveal that there are few or no subject boundaries left between books for young people and books for adults.") *''The Pepins and their Problems'' (2004) *''The Vacation'' (2005) *''The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane'' (2007) — Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize; finalist, Canadian Library Association's Young Adult Book of the Year *''My One Hundred Adventures'' (2008): Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize; NAPPA Gold Award; Parent's Choice Gold Award *''Northward to the Moon'' (2010) *''Mr. and Mrs. Bunny—Detectives Extraordinaire!'' (2012) *''One Year in Coal Harbor'' (2012) *''Lord and Lady Bunny—Almost Royalty!'' (2014)

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